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Britain’s dark history of criminalising the homeless
Society, Politics & Law

Britain’s dark history of criminalising the homeless

...money from the public. Hostile streets This is the work of successive governments. Civil orders introduced under Tony Blair to target “street-crime” effectively led to a clampdown on begging, which sanctioned homeless communities en masse. When the coalition government came to power in 2010, these civil orders were amended to give local authorities even greater powers...
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Deplaning: Why is the 747 coming to the end of the runway?
Science, Maths & Technology

Deplaning: Why is the 747 coming to the end of the runway?

...money ever borrowed by any corporation at that time. The gamble also involved buying a 780-acre site near Seattle to build a totally new manufacturing site, and promising to deliver its first orders in a shorter time than any normal projection to develop such a large aircraft. But more than this, the company was throwing its resources into creating the world’s largest,...
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The rise of the Roses
Health, Sports & Psychology

The rise of the Roses

...money into netball initiatives. The largest programme to benefit from this investment was the Back to Netball (B2N) scheme, launched by England Netball in 2008, which has seen over 150,000 women take part. B2N is a national scheme aimed at women of all ages and experience to provide a fun and relaxed reintroduction to netball, with various sessions running around the...
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Economic incentives for countries to decarbonise
Money & Business

Economic incentives for countries to decarbonise

...money on increasingly expensive fossil fuel imports. Uncompetitive fossil fuel producers For example, producers with expensive shale oil or offshore drilling. These will not benefit from free riding, but they will be exposed to substantial losses and unemployment from their increasingly redundant oil assets. They too are incentivised to develop their own renewable...
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The rural dimension – after rundale
OpenLearn Ireland

The rural dimension – after rundale

...money sent home by migrant members of the family, working in cities in North America such as Boston and New York, than on income from agriculture. This represents another set of interdependencies within a wider geographical context. The apparently isolated farm in the West of Ireland remained far from independent. Generally, the families were large, but only one son could...
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The Z Files: Chi Onwurah
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Z Files: Chi Onwurah

...money. Benjamin Zephaniah No. Chi Onwurah And if you’re going to earn your living I wanted to do something that inspired me. Benjamin Zephaniah So what happened after comprehensive school? Did you go to university? Chi Onwurah Yes. I went to Imperial to study electrical engineering, and that was a bit of a culture shock, because I had to move down south and it was very...
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Valentine's Day in 1840s Scotland
History & The Arts

Valentine's Day in 1840s Scotland

...money, and some for glory, But you sing here all con amore.” And so the fun was over. But the amusement was so delightful, and the cogitations consequent thereon so pleasant, that, upon retiring, we were led to exclaim – “Pause and reflect That a day like this may never dawn again.” The magazine records that a Drawing-room concert was given to mark the occasion,...
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King Charles I, 1600 - 1649
History & The Arts

King Charles I, 1600 - 1649

...money, forced loans, impositions, and sale of monopoly licences. None of these methods were strictly illegal but his determination to reassert the royal prerogative and squeeze funds from unwilling contributors generated a lot of opposition. On the surface, Charles' period of personal rule appeared tranquil but tensions were gradually accumulating. In religious affairs,...
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